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...generation rewrites history in its own image. In the lurid cinemythology of the '30s, Capone was glorified by Paul Muni (Scarface), Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar) and James Cagney (Public Enemy) as a snap-brim Satan. In the sober retrospect of the '503, he is reduced by Rod Steiger to a mere whitecollar, clean-desk psychopath-a sort of organization maniac...
Divorce Revealed. Rod Steiger, 34, method actor, TV's original Marty, the cinema's current Al Capone and the malevolent bandit in Broadway's Rashomon; by Sally Gracie, 30, actress; after six years of marriage (mostly in separation), no children; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in January...
...Alamos' plasma thermocouple, the solid metals of a bimetallic thermocouple are replaced by a tiny (finch long) rod of uranium suspended inside a vacuum-sealed can that contains liquid cesium. The uranium is enriched with U-235. Around the cesium is a circulating coolant (see diagram). When the device is lowered inside a reactor, the uranium is bombarded by the neutrons generated by the reactor, causing the U-235 to fission and give off intense heat...
Women drivers copped first place in two of the six classifications. Stunt Driver Patricia Jones drove her Dodge Coronet to victory in the Low Medium-Price Class; Hollywood Secretary Mary Hauser zipped her Chevrolet Biscayne into top honors in the Low-Price, 6-Cylinder Class. Only a broken tie rod and penalty for lost time while she repaired it kept Restaurant Owner Mary Davis of Hollywood, in a Plymouth Belvedere, from winning first place in a third class. (She placed second.) In 13 individual races, in which men and women raced against each other and drove identical makes and models...
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Repeat of Rod Serling's Time Limit, about a tormented daydreamer (William Bendix) who imagines the Pearl Harbor attack before it happens...